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Modern Furniture Web Site Announces Free Service to Help Visitors Locate Home Furnishings
(PRWEB) August 17, 2007 -
 The founders of modern furniture Web site FurnitureSeen.com are proud to announce the introduction of a service that allows visitors to submit questions about specific items they are looking for. Founders Anita Engs and Susan Reed spend the majority of their days looking at home furnishings, and although they are unable to locate every item, the new, free service allows them to offer practical suggestions to shoppers.
Engs and Reed created FurnitureSeen.com because they were frustrated with the amount of time and effort shoppers must devote to locating original, modern home furnishings. The site features hundreds of products from more than 80 vendors in Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco and Chicago, and has the goal of connecting architects, interior designers, set designers and consumers with modern furniture showrooms and studios.
FurnituresSeen.com doesnÂt sell any products; it simply puts the siteÂs users in touch with a local producer or seller. The siteÂs other key ingredient is that any home furnishing product shown on the site be Âmodern. Although a subjective classification at best, this qualification makes the site a rich hunting ground for like-minded consumers and design professionals. In its quest to bring it all to the buyer, FurnitureSeen.com has become a Âgreat equalizer for smaller designers by including them alongside established, well known designers.
In order to quantify the Web siteÂs services, Reed and Engs conducted field studies in San Francisco and New York in which they attempted to visit as many furniture showrooms as possible in each city. During six hours in San Francisco, the pair  who stopped only for coffee  visited 12 showrooms, spent $ 35 in parking and covered a 10-mile radius. In a similar experiment in New York, Reed and Engs mapped out a route and decided to spend between 20 and 45 minutes in each showroom. During their six hours in New York, the pair  who stopped only for a 20-minute lunch  visited 20 showrooms, took six subways and walked for miles.
The experiment Reed and Engs conducted left them exhausted, and illustrated the value of FurnitureSeen.com, which provides a convenient, time-effective way to shop for home furnishings. In one hour, customers who use the site can Âvisit four cities, Âshop at more than 80 showrooms and view more than 1,000 pieces of modern furniture. At FurnitureSeen.com, users can also print specification sheets and e-mail showrooms to obtain additional information.
The capability of FurnitureSeen.com visitors to ask Reed and Engs questions about specific modern furniture adds to the siteÂs convenience. Shoppers can save time and money by beginning their search for home furnishings online, narrowing down their choices and then planning a direct and efficient shopping trip. For additional information, visit www.FurnitureSeen.com .
Contact:
Anita Engs
General Manager
FurnitureSeen.com
310-559-9054
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Measuring the Success of a DIY Home Improvement Project
Gauging your success
How does one gauge the success of a do it yourself home improvement project? What level of expectations should we have upon their completion?
For a good many people, evaluation of a DIY home improvement project is out of the question. There is a general misconception that once a DIY project is done, it’s done. No need to further evaluate whether the project was really a success or not. The need to evaluate the success of a DIY project has two main goals:
Establish whether the project had been executed according to plan.
Establish whether you’re improving as compared to previous different projects that you have done before.
The criteria
1. Cost- how does one evaluate the true cost of a DIY project? Start with the basic raw materials. A central blueprint for any DIY project should have a list of the materials for the completion of a project. If the cost of the finished product and the projected cost of the project do not match, then this should be avoided in the future. A disparity of 25% from the actual cost can be acceptable.
The point of a DIY home improvement project is to basically save money. Saving money entails sticking to a budget- which has already been computed to be cheaper than actually hiring or buying finished goods.
In some rare instances, central plans have wrong computations- this is fine, as long as effort is given to remedy this problem in the future.
2. Finished product- whether you’re replacing floor boards or making a rocking chair, one particular consideration would be the finished product itself. Simply put, does it look good?
Of course, do not expect that a hand-made cabinet made with spare wood found in the garage can look as attractive as the ones you buy from a furniture store or a factory outlet. But at least, the finished product should look decent, in combination with other pieces of furniture in your home.
This criterion is especially important when you plan to make large-scale DIY home improvement projects, such as replacing walls or parts of the roof. Once you’re done, indeed, you’re done.
3. Timeframe- one thing should be made clear when we talk about DIY home improvement project timeframe: time does count. This issu can be discounted if you have a lot of free time in your hand: for instance, summer vacation or the like. But if you’re doing the DIY project on weekends, you have to make sure that you’re completing the phases of the project on time.
The reason for this criterion is that time is money when you think about it. If you spend three months creating a cabinet no bigger than a child’s table, then there is definitely something wrong with the project. Laziness should be eliminated in the picture- you can’t simply reason that you’ve been lazy. What would be the function of timeframe then?
Timeframe can vary from project to project. Try your best by sticking to a limited timeframe; indeed this will have its reward in later DIY projects. You can call it GOAL Setting.